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CFGtech's avatar
CFGtech
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Czech diacritics characters in filename

Dear Dropbox,


I would like to discuss one specific issue witch we are having with our Business dropbox. We are using http requests to communicate with out Dropbox via Integromat(Czech solution).


Issue we are dealing with
1) We need to use diacritics in our Head (Dropbox-API-Arg) in API requests.

Everything is working fine until we put some of our Czech diacritics characters in the „file name“ such as „ŠČÍÉ“ . Then the request is not going through.

Do you have some experience with this type of problem?

I would like to kindly ask for your help and support.

  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    Legendary | Level 20

    Hi CFGtech,

    The answer is very simple, but unfortunately not good. Dropbox Unicode support is not full. I already have mentioned for this here (including in a ticket). Your query is one more voice. :wink:

    Let's hope we will see proper support someday.

    • CFGtech's avatar
      CFGtech
      Helpful | Level 5

      Hi,

      we got a solution from Integromat support. Where we used _Query String_  `arg`  instead of _Headers_ 'Dropbox-API-Arg'. 

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    CFGtech Thanks for the report! It sounds like you're referring to making content-upload or -download calls on the Dropbox API, where you have non-ASCII characters to send in the 'Dropbox-API-Arg' HTTP header. 

    You can do so, but you'll need to make sure you're encoding those characters before putting them in the HTTP header, as HTTP headers don't support them natively. We have a guide here that covers how to do so:

    https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/json-encoding

    • Здравко's avatar
      Здравко
      Legendary | Level 20

      Hi Greg-DB,

      Sorry for my fast response. Seems in particular case the names are not encoded properly, Yes. I just assumed that a developer know that http(s) transport is ascii-based.

      One provocative question in this context: Is You site (dropbox.com) follow the rules You just describe above? What I mean: After a try to create directory named "😀😇😈😉" (for example), the following message appears:

      May be www.dropbox.com is buggy!? :confounded:

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Здравко I can only provide support for the Dropbox API itself, not the Dropbox website, so I'm afraid I can't offer insight on your question.

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